Creator Gods
The creator in the Genesis creation myths
What is God?
Relates how a god or hero battles a monstrous enemy
What is a combat myth?
Chinese hero that repairs the earth once the waters recede
What is Yu?
Most ancient myths were shared in the oral tradition long before they were written down
What is true?
Gods from this pantheon are immortal and can not die
What is the Greek pantheon?
The creator from Memphite Creation
What is Ptah?
Relates how tricksters transform ether themselves or the world around them
What is a trickster myth?
The reason that the Israelite God sent the Flood
What is wickedness of man?
Loki is Thor's adopted brother
What is FALSE!
Odin rules this hall, the glorified afterlife realm of soldiers fallen in battle
What is Valhalla?
The Chinese creator born from a cosmic egg
What is P'an Ku?
Relates how one god pursues and attains the role of chief god, often by deposing others on the way
What is a succession myth?
The Babylonian gods send a flood as their third and final attempt to destroy humans; these are the first two attempts
What are disease and drought?
What is true?
This binatural Vedic god is both a god and the physical object of fire
What is Agni?
A known Vedic creator god
What is Prajapati?
Relates how gods level destruction on humans because one (or more) human offended the gods
What is an apocalyptic myth?
Incan god that punishes humanity by sending a flood, but saves three men
What is Viracocha?
A culture hero is a hero that plays by the rules and saves humans
What is false?
This Trickster stole fire for humans but didn't distribute the flames himself
What is Coyote, from Klamath culture?
The two creators from the Yoruba myth, one of land, one of people
What are Oduduwa and Obatala?
Relates how two or more gods meet to discuss fate of one or more humans
What is divine council myth?
The flood in the beginning of Norse creation was made of this
What is the blood of Ymir?
Polytheism is the belief in many gods but worship of only one
What is false?
This similarity between Hesiod's Theogony and the Hittite story of Kumarbi suggests that the Greek author Hesiod was influenced by Mesopotamian oral tradition
What is the god swallowing a rock instead of a child?